The action of this novel starts when the oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, calls all animals to a secret meeting. He tells them about his dream of a revolution against the cruel Mr Jones.

"Any great change must expect opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege." Lucretia Mott

Let the tinkers tink, and the thinkers think, and let's all live together in harmony.

No thinker has ever made much of a thread without a tinker to fill in the voids.